1st Edition
Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State
1. Analyzing the role of business in welfare state development
Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Part I: Country Studies
2. Business interests and the development of the Bismarckian welfare state
Thomas Paster
3. Explaining employer support for welfare state development in the Netherlands
Dennie Oude Nijhuis
4. Business interests and the development of the public-private welfare mix in Switzerland, 1880-1990
Pierre Eichenberger and Matthieu Leimgruber
5. British employers and the development of state protection for unemployment, sickness and old age, 1900-1990
Paul Bridgen
6. Private or public? Employer attitudes and strategies towards welfare reform in Finland
Susanna Fellman
7. Misrepresented interests: Business, Medicare, and the making of the American health care state
Peter A. Swenson
Part II: Cross-country comparisons and recent challenges
8. Who controls the workplace? Business and the regulation of job security in Western Europe
Patrick Emmenegger
9. Employer organizations and the evolution of active labor market policy in Sweden and the United States
Joshua C. Gordon
10. The business of change: Employers and work-family policy reforms
Magnus Bergli Rasmussen and Øyvind Søraas Skorge
11. The financial politics of occupational pensions: A business interest's perspective
Nataschavan der Zwan
12. Industrial coordination and vocational training in the postindustrial age
Cathie Jo Martin and Lukas Graf
13. Pension privatization as a boon to stock market development? Financial ideas, reform complementarities and the divergent fates of Hungary’s and Poland’s pension fund industries
Marek Naczyk
14. Conclusion: The business of studying business
Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Biography
Dennie Oude Nijhuis is senior researcher at the Institute for Social History in Amsterdam and lecturer at the Institute for History, Leiden University, Netherlands.
